HTC’s ChaCha Facebook phone coming to AT&T as the HTC Status

BGR has exclusively confirmed with a trusted source that HTC’s ChaCha, the company’s first device with dedicated Facebook button and deep Facebook integration, will be launching on AT&T in the coming weeks. According to our source, the launch could take place as soon as one week from now. Following some troubles HTC has had with the device’s name, the QWERTY-equipped Facebook phone will land on AT&T as the HTC Status. Truth be told, anything would sound better than ChaCha to us. Additionally, we have separately confirmed with HTC that despite earlier reports to the contrary, the other handset with dedicated Facebook button — HTC’s Salsa — won’t be hitting AT&T in the near future, if at all.

Cha Cha brings back memories of a John Waters film, where a young Devine plays a disturbed teenager who doesn’t get her “Cha Cha Heels” for Christmas and sets off on a life of Crime.

http://twitter.com/mobilephonefeat MobilePhoneFeatures

This is going to be a massive seller in the UK, but maybe not as big as the Sensation but we will have to wait and see. Looks very much like a BlackBerry though!

Anonymous

should be called the HTC StatusUpdate

Anonymous

or just the HTC Update

http://www.jphotog.com Hrunga Zmuda

Or rip off Apple marketing and call it an iLike? :-)

Anonymous

how much deeper can the integration go than whats available already in leading smart phones??

http://marcparadise.com/ Marc Paradise

I think it’s a lot more about “cheaper” than “deeper”. This is for the feature phone market.

Anonymous

there are free android phones on the market i dont think you can get much cheaper than that. i guess if you account monthly cost but im guessing the cost conscious would be on metro pcs or cricket with a android phone lol. i just cant imagine this flying out of any store. i think a windows 7 skin or android theme or integration into iOS would have served us all better but its probably that big fat check htc waved in order to get the facebook branding helped.

http://marcparadise.com/ Marc Paradise

I think it’s a lot more about “cheaper” than “deeper”. This is for the feature phone market.

Anonymous

So it’s a phone with a facebook app on the keyboard.. got it

Gus

Why does AT&T feel they have to rename phones? Only AT&T does this and I wish they’d stop. Every other carrier just keeps the manufactures original name.

Hey you think that’s bad you have the Desire HD and in the states they have like 4 different versions of that phone…
Inspire
Thunderbolt
Evo
Evo 3D

http://twitter.com/atlharry Harold Min

waiting for the HTC Lambada…

http://twitter.com/atlharry Harold Min

waiting for the HTC Lambada…

Anonymous

This has Kin written all over it unless the data plans are discounted. The $15, 200 MB plan on AT&T isn’t going to cut it for teens uploading and viewing facebook pictures all day.

worldbfree4me

Did Zuck approve of this ugly duckling? My wife would take a Pixi over this any day!

Anonymous

Good thing BGR is not writing papers for universities with a reference cited as “trusted source” other than the name of an actual source this report will be graded a big fat “F”. I think BGR is only posting this so they have readership from a juicy story they made up. You’ll surely won’t see this on sites like Bloomberg etc….

Anonymous

This is common in most journalism, as they do not wish to reveal their sources.

Not everything is supposed to be written like a scholarly paper.

Anonymous

Soon to be followed by a “Starbucks” phone: Just push the special, dedicated “Starbucks” button to be lead to the Starbucks closest to you.

Short Example

Aka across the street

Anonymous

Not here, they all closed down; now you have to actually drive to find one.

Anonymous

Soon to be followed by a “Starbucks” phone: Just push the special, dedicated “Starbucks” button to be lead to the Starbucks closest to you.

http://SmokieBrooks.com Levi Brooks

The idea of a fully integrated social media phone is pretty neat though. A design based around S.M. first and phone functions second would appeal to a lot of people. Just so long as it’s not the Kin 1 or 2.

I kinda like it but seems like as soon as you want to do something besides messaging or fb on it, you will want a bigger screen, or something that’s not awkward to hold sideways.

Cer

At least it has an appropriate name.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WNIQDT7O2EXD44F6GNJFNTYZA4 Harry Sullivan

At least it has an appropriate name. @Allen, I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent. com